G20 Labour Ministers Need to Push for Job Creation - INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC)

http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/No_30_Global_Unions_Statement-2.pdf -ITUC,TUAC and Global Unions Statement to the G20 Employment and Labour Ministers’ Meeting:  110 million jobs needed to overcome emergency -G20 Labour Ministers to spearhead co-ordinated action with Finance Ministers and Leaders protection of workers’ rights and a Social Protection Floor critical elements of recovery - Brussels, 21 September 2011 (ITUC OnLine):  A full scale jobs emergency confronts the G20 with 110 million jobs needed by 2015 just to return to the pre-crisis employment rate. Fiscal consolidation policies have set back growth and recovery, forcing millions of people into poverty and unemployment. TUAC General Secretary John Evans said that plans to encourage employment by G20 Labour and Employment Ministers will fail unless there is a co-ordinated approach with Finance Ministers and G20 Leaders. - Advice ITUC on line